5 years later:
"Kharis, you need to hide!" says the mother of the little girl.
The little girl said "Can't I run?"
"If you want but make it fast."
So the little girl, Kharis ran and climbed up high into a tree.
As she witnessed her people being killed, she heard a pale orc say, "Where's the girl?"
One of his minions said "We don't know sir."
Then after about 30 minutes of searching, they still couldn't find her. "Lets leave." the pale orc said with anger in his voice.
After they all left, Kharis climbed down the tree and ran for the Blue Mountain.
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It now was the middle of the night and she was hungry, and tired. She sat down next to a tree and fell asleep.
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Kili's POV:
When I woke up, I went outside to find a girl about my age passed out on the ground near a tree, I ran inside and jumped on my brother, Fili. "Wake up Fi, there is something I want to show you."
"Can it wait til later Ki?"
"No, now come on."
"Fine." He said getting up.
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So as I pulled Fili out to the tree, Uncle Thorin got home. "Shouldn't you two be asleep?"
"Yeah, but Kili found something that he wanted to show me." Fili yawned.
"Lead the way Kili."
"OK." So I showed them to the tree with the little girl.
They looked at me then the girl. Thorin Picked her up saying, "She's not an elf, ears aren't pointy that much."
So me and Fili followed uncle into the house and he took the girl into the guest bedroom.
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Kharis' POV:
When I woke up, I wasn't against a tree. I was in a nice warm bed. "Where am I?" I thought. I got up and walked out of the bedroom. I just walked around for a while.
Then I went downstairs and walked around until I heard someone coming down the stairs, so I ran underneath the table. They sat down to the right of me. Then three more sat down. One behind one to left and the other to the front of me.
"I'm stuck," I thought as I started to cry.
Just then I heard a woman's voice. "It's ok dear, come out from under the table."
I looked up to see a woman with a beard! So I crawled out and stood up slowly.
"You can sit down little one." I shook my head.
"Mom can't she talk?" a boy with blonde hair asked the woman.
"She probably can but she could be scared because she doesn't know us."
"Oh, Ok."
The woman turned to me saying "My name is Dis."
"I'm Fili" The blonde boy said.
"I'm Kili." His brown-haired little brother said.
"I'm Thorin Oakenshield, What is your name little one?" the older male said.
I opened my mouth however no words came out. So i tried again and squeaked out "I'm Kharis."
"That name sounds familiar, what is your last name?" Thorin asked interested.
"I don't know. My kind doesn't have any last name. I know for a fact that my name is Kharis. I had a mom, and dad, and brothers and my kind had about 195 others but they all where killed by orcs." "I'm the only one who survived." I said starting to tear up.
"It's ok little one you can stay here as long as you like." Dis smiled.
I smiled saying "Thank you." and hugged her. After I let go of Dis, I went and sat down at the table. "I hadn't eaten anything since high noon yesterday."
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They brought me a bowl of delicious homemade stew and a small loaf of bread. I looked at the food in amazement. My people would not eat THIS much meat only bread, fruits and veggies. Meat was once in a while.
I sniffed the stew, it smelled good so I took the spoon next to my bowl and tasted some of it. I dropped the spoon.
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Kili's POV:
As soon as Kharis dropped the spoon Uncle Thorin looked at her in disappointment. Then what she did something we all didn't expect. She put her hands on each side of the bowl, and started to eat the stew like an animal. We all watched in amazement while she was doing this.
I whispered to Fili "She must have been starving, to be eating like that."
"Yeah, she must have." My older brother whispered back.
We both chuckled.
We didn't even know that Kharis was finished with her stew until we heard her ask "What are you two giggling about?"
We didn't say anything.
"It's ok to laugh at me, because I'm use to it." Kharis smiled.
"Why is that sweetie?" My mother, Dis asked.
"Because other children my age mocked me because I was always the smallest, I was always the quietest, and instead of hiding from people I wanted to go near them, to study them. They mocked me because of this and more, like my people would only eat bread, fruits and veggies and little meat but me on the other hand wanted to eat more meat. Which the gave me the nickname of 'The Dwarf's Shadow."
We all gave her a questionable look.
"Only because I wanted to know what it is like as a dwarf." We still gave her the look of question. She just looked at us and shrugged it off and continued eating.
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A/N: How you like that, Kharis WANTED to be a dwarf. Kharis is about 100 years old but that is a child in her people. Like please, comment and thank you.
